Scotch Whisky reviews

Smooth wiskey fine nose of flowers and caramel taste like nuts and caramel, a bit sweet and lasts long

Few distilleries merit the term ‘traditional’ these days. Appealing to tradition has become a pervasive scheme by which large beverage conglomerates market their brands, but it glosses over a great deal…

Oh, boy! What a dark whisky. The label says it’s a refill sherry cask. But still, so dark. Wow! Anyway, a few facts. This 39 Year Old Longmorn was bottled by Gordon & Macpahil in their CASK-range, esp…

The Whisky Agency (in Limburg, Germany) brought this 34 Year Old Longmorn to the market in their ‘Landscapes’-range (their tenth already). It’s from a bourbon hogshead that was put to sleep in 1976 and…

The label says Longmorn-Glenlivet and the typical red shield with the letters LDG is present. It was distilled in 1971 and bottled at the age of 30 by Gordon & Macphail, the famous independent bottler…

This 15 Year Old Longmorn was distilled in 1992 and bottled by James MacArthur for the Whisky Festival in Milano. Only 150 bottles were taken from this sherry cask (number 62553), at a strength of 59,5%…

Colour is a darker bronze than our previous drams this evening, no doubt impact from the added quarter cask ageing.Nose of burnt sugar and butter. Glazed ham.Flavours are something of a let-down after…

Colour is very light yellow, and officially Sleeman Cream Ale coloured.Nose is hot and prickly and a touch of smoke. Medium to light bodied.Flavours are predominately charcoal and chalk dust. Very sli…